The noun indolence means  a habit of laziness, especially when avoiding work. In the 1600s, indolence was mostly used to mean insensitivity to pain, from the Latin indolentia, freedom from pain.. About 100 years later, indolence came to have its current meaning, possibly because of the phrase taking pains, which means being careful..
The Boondocks is an American adult animated sitcom on Cartoon Network 's late-night programming block, Adult Swim.
McGruder first launched the critically-acclaimed Boondocks comic strip in 1996, initially between the folds of the University of Maryland's Diamondback newspaper and The Source magazine, before Universal Press started syndicating the strip in 1999.